Topics - Guillaume

I use both SysML and UML on various EA projects.Somehow I must have enabled an option in EA that I need to get rid of:- in the toolbox view, the SysML Common is always visible (the common is collapsed)- in a UML use case diagram, I always get the SysML Use Case toolbox!

It would be very useful if the DB Builder could support intellisense on the current database when writing a query.So if I use the Ctrl+Space keys, I could get suggestions on the table and column names based on the tables in the current DB project.

I started building an image library in my model with Image Assets. Very handy to organize the images via packages as an alternative to the built-in Image Manager.When I create an Image from the toolbox, I can associate it with an existing image asset -> as an enhancement, I think we should be able to create this image by drag/dropping the image asset from the Project Browser and select e.g. Image in the drop down list.

When I copy elements from a diagram into another diagram, and paste all elements as new, the new image is not associated with the asset as expected ; could it be fixed?

Finally I noticed that I can no longer check the diagrams using an image asset (Find in all diagrams produces an empty result). This is possible in the Image Library with the View Usage.

I have a diagram with a couple of packages where I can see the classes they contain.I would like to hide some classes similarly to the classes where I can hide selected attributes.

Feature & Compartment Visibility let me filter out classes based on the Public/Protected/Private visibility, but the Custom button does not let me choose elements to hide.Note that I want to have several diagrams with different filtered lists of elements for the same packages.Would it be feasible to implement this in a future build?

I have a custom VB Script in EA that exports selected data in an Excel file within several tabs (e.g. classes, attributes, connectors...)It uses SQL queries that work fine via the ODBC link to the DB. When using the Cloud Service, the script fails exporting some of the data.

I have yet to investigate into details what's going on, but I was wondering if anyone had experienced a similar issue. Does the Cloud Service introduce issues in such scenario?

I noticed in some occasions that EA no longer takes into account updated VBScripts and runs a "cached" previous version of it.This can happen when I often change a number of scripts, or when I often re-run Reference Data imports, containing my scripts.

In a class diagram, I select packages and classes (classes shown within packages) to align vertically -> clicking on the button (LAYOUT > Alignment > Align Vertically) doesn't do anything.Using the right click on the selection and select Align Vertically moves them to the left -> seen both in EA 13 and 12.1I would expect the packages and classes to be aligned vertically altogether.

It would be very useful to have the option to select the Script Groups to export when running Export Reference Data with Automation scripts enabled.I often need to push custom scripts to my client in this file ; however my EA project often have other groups that are automatically included. Hence I have to re import to XML in a blank EAP and delete the unwanted groups.

The MDG could be an option once it maintains the script group type which it doesn't do currently (e.g. Diagram, Package script types are lost when published via an MDG)

I'm using EA13 and displayed a tagged value in the specification manager.It's a boolean so I can choose between True & False. It displays ok in the spec management but it cannot be changed. I can only edit standard text field tagged values.

I'm working on a SysML activity diagram and cannot achieve the following:- I created an action of type callbehaviour and selected an activity -> is there a way to display the classifier i.e. the activity name or does it require an enhancement?- I created action pins and set the direction as input & output for each. Is there a way to display the direction with an arrow? (it's available on other SysML tools)

I looked at the image assets introduced in EA13.It's very useful since I have a number of projects where we had to organize images, which is a pain with the Image Manager.

- When converting an image to an image asset, is this asset linked with all image instances on the various diagrams? It didn't seem to be fully the case when I did a number of tests (especially checking with the Find in all diagrams..)- Can we have a feature to convert all current images, or a selection to image assets so the convert doesn't have to be done individually? If not, can it be achieve via the API / scripts?- Can I safely add tagged values to image assets e.g. to apply a category value?- Will the image library on http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/resources/image_library.html be released as images assets for EA13?

I defined a SysML block definition diagram with my main block and parts via compositions. A role name + multiplicity is defined on each compositionAs a result a properties compartment shows up on the block with the associated role + block name

Other SysML modelling tools also display the multiplicity; could this be displayed via an option?